Part 1: Incorporating the Creative ProcessThe Importance of the Creative Process in Business

Overview For this Performance Task Assessment, you will take on the role of an applicant who is seeking a position as a team leader who must engage in and inspire creativity and innovation within the team. You will develop a presentation to company leadership that illustrates your perspectives on leadership strategies that foster creativity and innovation and promote positive social change within an organization operating in today’s competitive business environment. Assessment Submission Length: 14- to 17-slide (not including title slide or references) PowerPoint presentation with accompanying script Fostering a Culture of Creativity and Innovation For this Assessment, consider yourself to be an applicant for a management position at a company. The company’s leadership team was impressed with your résumé, especially your previous experience with analyzing and incorporating creativity and innovation into an organization from your role as a consultant. During your first phone interview, the vice president in charge of product improvement, Robert Simmons, emphasized the following needs: We are looking for a leader who can foster creativity and innovative thought processes in a dedicated team. The position requires a creative mindset and the ability to convey, assess, and implement creativity and innovative ideas and processes. Not only that, the team this person will inherit has a blend of personalities and is suffering from low morale. This leader must be able to create an improved team environment that will bring about positive change for our organization. Based on the strength of your initial conversation, Robert has invited you back for a follow-up interview with the entire leadership team and has asked you to make a presentation to the team on your leadership approach to creativity and innovation. In addition to sharing your knowledge and perspectives on creativity and innovation, he has asked that you show how you plan to incorporate leadership strategies to enable creativity and innovation and to foster a positive and productive environment within your team that will lead to improved organizational outcomes. Along with your presentation, you should prepare a script in Word that would accompany this presentation as if you were delivering it to the company’s leadership team. Also, be sure to incorporate references to appropriate academic sources, such as those found in the learning resources from this Competency, or those in the Walden Library. Click each of the items below for more information on this Assessment. Part 1: Incorporating the Creative Process (4–5 slides) The first part of your presentation should focus on the creative process and its role in business. Address the following: Analyze the importance of the creative process in establishing business practices. As part of your analysis, explain ways in which creativity can manifest through business practices. Using your own creative process as the basis for your design, propose a strategy of what the creative process could look like for a team in an organization, being sure to include specific stages in the creative process. Analyze the impact of a growth mindset on creativity and innovation. As part of your analysis, explain how you could incorporate a growth mindset into your creative processes or your creative processes within an organization. . Part 2: Incorporating Innovative Leadership for Diverse Teams (4–5 slides) In the second part of your presentation, address the following: Summarize what it means to be an innovative leader and how you intend to apply an innovative approach to your leadership. Synthesize how leadership style can foster innovation. Propose at least two strategies for how you could apply your leadership style to help develop an innovative atmosphere for a diverse team. To support your ideas, do some research and locate at least two examples (a minimum of one example per strategy) of how leadership styles can foster innovation in the workplace. Part 3: Incorporating Innovative Workplace Culture and Practices (6–7 slides) In the third part of your presentation, address the following: Summarize how innovation can lead to a productive culture for an organization and explain how you intend to contribute to a culture of innovation. Summarize how innovative practices impact an organization and explain how you intend to implement innovative workplace practices. To conclude your profile, convince the VP how you will use your ideas to foster a positive team environment, bring forth creativity and innovation in the workplace, support sound decision making, and promote positive social change. Provide at least two examples of business practices you would employ.